Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-08-09
NeWs NOtes.

&. III. Condee, of San Bernardino,
was in the city yesterday on import
tant real estate movements in con-
temptation.
Juan Lopez, who was, year ago,
sentenced to the County Jail for 500
days, for assault to murder, was yes
terday pardoned by Governor Bart
lett. Lopez had served $50 days.
John S. Underwood was last Thurs
day married to Miss B. b. X. O'Byrne.
The ceremony was solemnized at the
Cathedral in the presence of the rela-
tives and friends of the happy couple.
]. J. Mellus yesterday sold to B. F..
Porter tract of land on the corner of
Alameda and Second streets for $780,
600. There is about an acre in the
tract and it was bought by Mr.. Mellus
last February for 100000.
Grant p. Cuddeback and his beauti-
full wife returned from. their wedding
tour of the northern part of the State
and will make Los Angeles, the land
of semi-tropic scenery, sunshine and
health, their future home.
The number of transfers of real es-
tate yesterday was 1872 and the amount
of consideration for the same $691 POI
This is the largest number of deeds
ever recorded in one day in Los An
geles County.
Mr.. Oscar Baer is receiving the con-
gratulations of his many friends on
the arrival at his house of a charming
baby daughter. The HERALD joins in
good wishes for the health and pros
perity of the promising infant.
Juenger 4 Wolf, the Main-street
druggists, have no intention of leaving
their present comfortable quarters.
They think they have right on their
side, and will try conclusions with
Mr.. E. N. Mcdonald, the owner OF
the building.
f. G. Atkinson of San Francisco.
Master of Masons in California, is in
the city, and will pay an official visit
to Southern California Lodge No. 27s
on Wednesday evening, August 10.
The third degree will be conferred,
after which a banquet will be served.
An attempt was made to wreck the
l 80 train to Santa Monica last Sun
day. A tie was placed upon the track
the other side of The Palms, and the
engine ran onto it. Fortunately the
tie was composed of soft wood and
was crushed by the engine, and the
train was not thrown from the track
As predicted by the HERALD, Nc
Queen, the suspected robber of the
Southern Pacific train at Papago, was
yesterday discharged by U. S. Com
missioner Van Dyke. twas foolish
charge in the first place, and only re.
suited in putting the Government tC
considerable expense.
DIR. Ostrander will lecture tonight
and tomorrow night at the Fort street
M. Z. Church. The Doctor will Illus
trate his lectures by fourteen ladies
and gentlemen in oriental costume.
1t will be most pleasing entertain
ment, and the attendance will doubt
less be very large.
On Sunday morning a young man
employed on the Paige & Morton
ranch, near Tulare City, accidentally
shot himself while cleaning his re-
volver, and die on the afternoon of
that day. His name was Burrell, and
he was a young man in excellent re-
pute in the community where he re-
sided.
III. Clauson, the railway superin-
tendent of eating houses on the line
of the Southern Pacific Company, is
in the city. He is securing dozen
huge watermelons, about the size of a
country smoke-house, to take to Og-
den, Utah, as an advertisement of Los
Angeles county.
Sunday night some vandal entered
the livery stable of Peter Clos at q
Also street and out of pure malice re-
moved all of the nuts on the vehicles
in the stable. The very necessary ad
juncts to a well equipped wagon OIL
buggy were found in an adjacent lot
Hon. A. w. Potts, with his wife and
three daughters, left by the 80 train
yesterday for visit TO Oakland. Mr.
Potts is State Bank Commissioner and
is more likely to revolve around Oak.
land at present than Los Angeles, and
wants his household deities with
him.
Capt. B. w. Connolly, of the cele-
brated Crispin mine of Pinal county,
A. T., is at the st. Charles. The Girls
pin mine is the south extension OF the
celebrated Silver King mine and bids
fair to rival that famous dividend-pay-
ing mine. Captain Connolly has a
ten-stamp mill with him and will have
1t in working order within go days.
Francis Marion Mathews, of Dow
ney. was in the city yesterday. He is
q pioneer of 1S47, and carries perma-
nent certificate in his own body of his
part in the battle of Cerro Gordo, in
the Mexican war in 1846 He is one
of tire old-time prospectors of Califor-
mia and Arizona, but prefers to reside
in the rich Los Nietos Valley.